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Niki

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Good day

You can create a "Side Panel" (left or right) or an "Upper Panel" or all the 3 of them, and drag your shortcuts from the desktop to one of the Panels and by that, cleaning your desktop from extra shortcuts.
The Panel(s) will be hidden and only when you "bang" your courser against the "wall" of the desktop, the Panel will appear and you can select your shortcut with ONE click only.

Before you think that I'm computer genius; it's NOT my "patent", I read it on one of the computer forums, I did it and I"m very happy with it.

1. Right click on "Start" and click on "Explore", This will open the "Windows explorer".
2. Click on the + of "Windows" to expand it.
3. Click on the + of "Start Menu" to expand it.
4. Click on "Programs" (NOT the + but the file itself). On the right pane you will see the folders of all your Start Menu programs.
5. On the RIGHT PANE; RIGHT click on an empty space. On the drop-down menu go down to "New", go to the right and click on "Folder". A new folder will be created on the right pane.
6. Rename the "New folder" to Side Panel or, Upper panel or whichever name you like
7. Close the "Windows Explorer".
8. Click on "Start", go to "Programs" and look for the "Side Panel" (or whichever name you gave it), it should be the last at the bottom of the menu.
9. Left click on the "Side Panel", hold it and drag it to one of the "walls" of your desktop and DROP it there. You should see a new bar with the name you gave it.
10. Right click on the bar. On the drop-down menu, click "Always on Top". Right click again on the bar and click "Auto Hide".
To see the bar just "Bang" your courser against the "wall" of your screen.
11. Take any shortcut, drag it into the bar and drop it there. To open the program of this shortcut, "bang" the courser to the "wall", the bar will appear, and click ONES on the icon.
12. You can resize the width of the panel at the same way you resize any other window.

The same way you create another side panel or upper panel.

Regards
niki


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Thank you for that tip or suggestion.

I myself just create new folders on my existing desktop and drag short cuts into these folders under the named categories; i.e. flying programs, railway programs, imaging programs etc.
 
Nice tip

items 1-7 are more easily accomplished by right-clicking on the start button and selecting explore all users. Then select the 'Programs' menu and carry on
 
Thank you

Devonwoody
The advantage of the Side panel for me is that I don't have to shrink all the open windows.
I can also drag and drop any folder into this panel to clean the desk top from icons but, its personal.

Tony
You are correct but Im still in the old generation with Windows 98.

niki
 
Niki":3ty8l4yw said:
You are correct but Im still in the old generation with Windows 98.

niki

Isn't that a bit risky now Microsoft have stopped issuing security patches?

Andy
 
Hi Andy

I'ts not risky at all, I'm using Firefox and Opera (You can see the icon on the second picture on the side panel), with the Opera there is no security problem and as I noticed, it's the fastest browser in starting and browsing (on my PC).

The size of Opera is 4.5MB and I'm not sure but, it looks to me that all the security updates are more that that (I did not download even one security update).

niki
 
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